Sophisticated means complex, worldly wise, urbane, etc. in contrast to natural, simple, artless, and naive. Someone will probably jump in at this point with the word's roots in "sophistry" from ancient Greece -- people who taught rhetoric and/or practiced complex argumentation ...
Hello.. Could you tell me whether sophisticated and elaborate have different meanings and/or connotations? I am doing a translation. There is reference to "sophisticated music" in one paragraph and to "elaborate literary style" in the next. Would you consider this an effort to refrain from...
Hello everyone. I would like to know what "Sophisticated — God, I’m sophisticated!” means in the following sentences: "And I know. I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything.” Her eyes flashed around her in a defiant way, rather like Tom’s, and she laughed with thrilling...
Hello there, This is a question from the test at learnenglish.britishcouncil.org Some words are often used together, e.g. smelly + socks. Choose a word which is often used with: sophisticated a. dress b. purse c. ship I have no idea what word it is. According to the dictionary sophisticated...
Does unsophisticated have a slightly negative connotation? I looked up both definitions of words and find "sophisticated" seems to have more approval or positive meanings than unsophisticated. Zen state is characterized by artistic beauty , tranquil beauty, unsophisticated beauty, and ascetic...
You could only use "sophisticated", in my opinion, if the signal had been deliberately generated in an advanced and clever way by a person or machine. The reason is that "sophisticated" normally implies a degree of deliberate refinement.
The problem is defining what "sophisticated" means. It's like the old question whether some languages are easier to learn than others. Many people would say that in the final analysis this is not true (I believe it is). Most languages "choose" to emphasize some types of ways of describing reality in favor of others, whether it's the precise sense of aspect that one finds in the Slavic ...